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Students are encouraged to participate in the Middle School Spelling Bee on Friday. Practice word lists were distributed and can be found here.
English w/ Mr. Rouse –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- none.
- With a shorter week, we didn’t cover as much, but we did complete warm-ups. Our warm-ups covered title formatting, types of adjectives, and words using the root word, pyro.
- We did some pre-reading for the book, Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Students will need their copies by Monday!
- For creative writing, we fluffed sentences, an activity where I have the students turn simple sentences into descriptive sentences following the principle of show don’t tell.
Math w/ Mrs. Boldrick –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – none scheduled.
- The students reviewed simplifying radicals.
- We moved on to learning about the Pythagorean Theorem. I told them that they should be proud to show off their advanced math skills. They love saying Pythagorean Theorem!
- The students are can identify the hypotenuse, opposite, and adject sides of a right triangle.
- They are using their knowledge of square roots to solve for the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
Math w/ Mrs. Howells –
- No Upcoming Tests or Quizzes
- We continued our introduction to inequalities that began before the holiday break.
- Our focus skill was graphing inequalities on a number line.
- Started solving inequalities with addition.
- The students picked up quickly on these since the process is the same as solving for the unknown in equations.
Science w/ Mrs. Farris – Experimental design quiz week of Jan 20th
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – no test or quiz scheduled
- Our myth-buster detectives are on the case, investigating the steps in an experimental design!
- We then put it into action by asking the testable question – How many times can you fold a piece of paper?
- While some students were eager to start folding, we first worked through each step—developing a hypothesis, identifying controls and variables, and outlining our instructions—before diving into the experiment!
Music w/ Mrs. Chelsey –
It was great to see the students again!! We jumped back into choral warm-ups and breath work, and we played one of our favorite rhythm games, “Pass the beat around the room”. We will be starting to learn “The National Anthem” in preparation for singing at a Nailers game at the end of March. There will be information going home about this in the next few weeks. We will also be starting to learn a couple of other choral pieces to do a short virtual choral video of “Spring Songs”.